FILE - In this Wednesday May 10, 2006 file photo Gary McKinnon, accused of mounting the largest ever hack of United States government computer networks, listens to a reporter's question outside the Bow Magistrates Court in central London. Britain's Home Secretary is set to rule on Tuesday Oct. 16, 2012, whether to extradite a British hacker to America to face charges for breaking into sensitive computer networks at U.S. military and space installations. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)